Lanes???

Support and feedback for Acoustica's Mixcraft audio mixing software.

Moderators: Acoustica Greg, Acoustica Eric, Acoustica Dan, rsaintjohn

Post Reply
TheHound
Posts: 129
Joined: Sun Apr 24, 2016 10:26 pm

Lanes???

Post by TheHound »

I'm not certain as to how to ask this question other that to ask, what are they for? I noticed them by accident when I recorded on a track that I had already recorded on.

Are they for sub mixes?
User avatar
freightgod
Posts: 720
Joined: Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:18 am

Re: Lanes???

Post by freightgod »

User avatar
Rski
Posts: 14
Joined: Mon Nov 27, 2017 2:51 pm
Location: Whitby, Ontario

Re: Lanes???

Post by Rski »

Take lanes are great for workflow.
Imagine during recording your having a great time laying down tracks, but sometimes during a creative moment
we make a flub, when a musical inspiration is flowing. Maybe the first portion of a track while soloing is spot on then for some reason we fall out of place, musically speaking (flub)
The beauty of a take lane, place the program pointer in some region before the flub, hit record, the take lane will record your continuation, no need to start another track, and assign input. The cool thing about digital, the overlap of the original track can be notched back or the take lane can notched forward, until the two lanes dont musically conflict with each other.
Then during mix down, the track volume and panning are in control, rather than messing with an additional track volume or panning.
Usually I use take lanes for multiple takes, especially when doing a lead take, decide later, what take is a keeper
User avatar
Acoustica Greg
Posts: 24560
Joined: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:30 pm
Location: California
Contact:

Re: Lanes???

Post by Acoustica Greg »

Hi,

Lanes can also be used with multi-timbral instruments like Kontakt to have different instruments on the same track.

Greg
Mixcraft - The Musician's DAW
Check out our tutorial videos on YouTube: Mixcraft 10 University 101
User avatar
Ian Craig
Posts: 1019
Joined: Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:15 pm
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Contact:

Re: Lanes???

Post by Ian Craig »

There are video lanes also. They are very useful for organising video sections
Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio (build 470) recording output using MRecorder
AMD Ryzen 8 Core 3.0 GHz (40 GB Ram) & Intel i9 11th Gen 3.5 GHz (64GB Ram),
Windows 10 Professional
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 & 8i6
TheHound
Posts: 129
Joined: Sun Apr 24, 2016 10:26 pm

Re: Lanes???

Post by TheHound »

Thanks for all the replies. Maybe I can make use of this feature now.
Post Reply